Krita Monthly Update - Edition 27
Welcome to the May 2025 development and community update.
Community Report
May 2025 Monthly Art Challenge Results
24 forum members took on the challenge of the "Humongous Hats" theme. And the winner is… Mouse Sage 🐭 by @Mythmaker
The June Art Challenge is Open Now
For the June Art Challenge, @Mythmaker has passed the honor of choosing the topic to regular participant @Corentin, who has chosen "Wrath of the Sun" as the theme. Interpret this title however you want, optionally include some sort of decorative design, and have fun with the sun!
Featured Artwork
Best of Krita-Artists - April/May 2025
This month's Best of Krita-Artists Nominations thread received 20 nominations of forum members' artwork. When the poll closed, these five wonderful works made their way onto the Krita-Artists featured artwork banner: King-under-Leaves by @canedo
New Life Zone by @Yaroslavus_Artem
Best of Krita-Artists - May/June 2025
Take a look at the nominations for next month, and suggest your favorite latest artworks to be featured. Don't forget to vote when the poll opens on June 11th!
Ways to Help Krita
Krita is Free and Open Source Software developed by an international team of sponsored developers and volunteer contributors. That means anyone can help make Krita better!
Support Krita financially by making a one-time or monthly monetary donation. Or donate your time and Get Involved with testing, development, translation, documentation, and more. Last but not least, you can spread the word! Share your Krita artworks, resources, and tips with others, and show the world what Krita can do.
Other Notable Changes
Other notable changes in Krita's development builds from May 8 - June 6, 2025.
Stable branch (5.2.10-prealpha):
- General: Fix a crash when autosaving heavy images with lots of compositions and an adjustment layer with vector selection. (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
- File Formats: TIFF: Fix TIFF file size bloating after each overwrite. (Change, by Igor Danilets)
- General: Change Resize Canvas's 'Constrain proportions' toggle to not reset the canvas size. (bug report) (Change, by Halla Rempt)
- Linux: Upgrade AppImage base to Ubuntu 2204. (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
Unstable branch (5.3.0-prealpha):
Bug fixes:
- Android: Fix the Text Properties Docker being blank. (bug report) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
- General: Fix floating toolbars disappearing on restart. (bug 504463) (Change, by Freya Lupen)
- Python Plugins: Workflow Buttons Docker: Fix Pan and Text Tool buttons. (bug report) (Change, by Freya Lupen)
Features:
- Text Properties Docker: Allow configuring when each property should be shown in the list; always, never, when set, or when relevant (inherited or set). (Change, by Wolthera van Hövell)
- Text Properties Docker: Add Text Rendering property, for antialiasing/hinting options. (Change, by Wolthera van Hövell)
- SVG: Handle SVG title and desc metadata. (Change, by Wolthera van Hövell)
- Shortcuts/Toolbars: Add Force Palette Colors action to limit color selection to colors in the palette. (Change, by Halla Rempt)
- Python Plugins/Scripting: Add and use FileDialog class, which uses Krita's wrapper around QFileDialog in order to respect Krita's "Don't use native file dialogs" setting. (bug report, bug report) (Change, by Freya Lupen)
Nightly Builds
Pre-release versions of Krita are built every day for testing new changes.
Get the latest bugfixes in Stable "Krita Plus" (5.2.10-prealpha): Linux - Windows - macOS (unsigned) - Android arm64-v8a - Android arm32-v7a - Android x86_64
Or test out the latest Experimental features in "Krita Next" (5.3.0-prealpha). Feedback and bug reports are appreciated!: Linux - Windows - macOS (unsigned) - Android arm64-v8a - Android arm32-v7a - Android x86_64